Documentation - DocBook

• SGML and XML document type definition for
  • strucutured, semantic markup of text
  • defines structure of a document in terms of elements
  • defines attributes to each element
  • entities may be used to refer to other files and blocks of elements
  • DocBook documents are plain text (ASCII or UNICODE)
  • documents can be verified against a document type
• Advantages:
  • semantics of document is specified, not layout or typesetting
  • documents publication in different formats (HTML, RTF, TeX, ...)